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Capture an image of EXACTLY what you see on the screen. Works great if you have an error message you want to save for your computer repair guy to see. Want to print something on the screen but there is no print icon or option. If you've been sent a slideshow and there is a picture you want to keep. Or for any other reason. To capture the image 1. push print screen on the keyboard Place the captured image in your computer for safe keeping 2. Open Word 3. Go to edit and choose paste 4. the image will appear on the page 5. Save, file or even print the page   Explore Bing Maps maps.bing.com A new way to see a map. Click the Blue Man to get streetside views. Add Map Apps to enhance your map experience (bottom left) like choosing worldwide telescope to see the stars. or streetside photos to see flickr images of the area you are looking at   Pivot from Microsoft works for Windows Vista and 7 www.getpivot.com Displays information on the web in a graphical way vs. conventional text sea...

http://sftowershelp.blogspot.com I use Mac Mail and receive SMTP error messages, what can I do 1. open mac mail 2. go to preferences 3. click accounts 4. below beside SMTP make sure there is only 1 server listed Change text documents to a universal format for any user to open 1. Open the document 2. Go to file and choose Save As 3. Beside File Format 4. Choose RTF or TXT 5. Name the file and click same Customize the Internet Browser Navigation toolbar to include more than just back and forward 1. Place your mouse arrow on the toolbar 2. Hold CTRL and click to get a menu of viewing options 3. Choose customize toolbar 4. A window appears with all the features you can add to the toolbar 5. Click hold and drag icons off the bar to remove them and click hold and drag icons from the window onto the bar to add them 6. close the window when you are done   Jason Dare Computer Trainer 415/240.4843 learn@sfct.net 1617 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121 www.sfct.ne...

Windows Update Website (note, must use Internet Explorer to perform updates) http:// windowsupdate.microsoft.com New gadget I introduced in class http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/   Jason Dare Computer Trainer 415/240.4843 learn@sfct.net 1617 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121 www.sfct.net

 Setting a custom screensaver to display photos/images of your choice. (famous paintings, photographs of flowers/buildings/ice sculptures, family photos) A screensaver displays when the computer has been idle for a specified amount of time. --Setting up a folder to hold the images you want to display for the screen saver 1. go to the desktop 2. go to file and choose "new folder" 3. title the new folder, "images for my screensaver" ---Finding images to add to the newly created screensaver folder 1. Open the internet 2. Go to google and type in the type of image you want to find 3. Click google search 4. Click "images" on the top left 5. Find an image you want to keep 6. Click on the image--->click "full size image" 7. Hold "ctrl" and click on the image to open a menu of options 8. Choose save image as 9. Save the image to the desktop, if you like you can rename the file so you can identify it later 10. Repeat until y...

SF Towers computer class blog – search (lop left) for answers http://sftowershelp.blogspot.com   Cleaning up your messages in Yahoo It is a new year, so perfect time to clean out/up your inbox. Best practice if you have   more than 40 emails from previous years you don't want to sort through and want to keep, just in case. Create a new folder labeled "emails older than 2010" and move the emails into that folder as storage. 1.    Open Yahoo Email 2.    Log in to your email 3.    Click the add link beside folder on the left 4.    A new folder appears, TYPE out the new name of the folder, "emails older than 2010" 5.    Click the inbox 6.    Choose all the messages from previous years, by clicking the check box beside each email or…click the top most check box to check all the boxes (if needed do a few at a time) 7.    Click the black arrow above beside move and choose the folder to move your checked emails to...

Landscape File--->Page setup Create a column format---->Columns Alignment the Text to be centered on the page Format---->Paragraph---->alignment Insert a picture Insert--->Picture--->From File---->choose the picture Resize the Picture go to the corner of the picture and when the arrow turns into two arrows, Click hold and drag Create a new second page while only having 1/2 a page of text on the first page(don't push enter enter enter) Create a PAGE BREAK Insert--->Break---->Page Break **you can also create a column break to start on the next column How can I move the text from one document to another? COPY & Paste 1. Select/highlight what you want to copy (if you want everything in the document go to edit and choose select all) 2. Go to the edit menu and choose COPY 3. Click where you want the text that you copied to appear 4. Go to the edit menu and choose PASTE  Jason Dare Computer Trainer 415/240.4843 jason.dare@sfct....

Creating an automated response to senders of emails notifying them that you are away or that your email address has changed, or whatever kind words you want to share. (you will still receive your messages in the inbox) To make the change you have to go to the source of your emails...your provider. www.yahoo.com , www.comcast.net , www.mac.com 1. login to your account by going to the suffix of your email yahoo.com, comcast.net, mac.com, sftmail.com, etc. 2. look for something labeled preferences or options (as in yahoo on the top right side) 3. Then look for a heading labeled vacation response or auto reply 4. fill in the information 5. be sure to save the change to make it active ***Note. some services like Yahoo allow you to determine dates of when the auto response will show OR you have to turn off the auto response when you return Create a signature for an email which will appear at the end of each email that contains your information or any information you want to include. For Yah...

Free Antivirus from Microsoft for windows XP, Vista and windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/default.aspx ***Does not include firewall services like Norton or Mcafee might***   Companies are always working on new projects. Google has a few of them available for you to explore. Visit http://www.googlelabs.com/    ****Keep an Open Mind****   Creating a folder in Yahoo to organize your emails 1.      Click "add" beside folder on the left of your window 2.      A new folder appears, type in the name you want 3.      Done To move an email into the folder, from your inbox, put a check mark beside the email and then click move above and choose which folder to move it to. To rename the folder, Right-Click on the folder and choose rename and enter in the new name. How can I check to see if someone is listed incorrectly in my SPAM list? Yahoo 1.     ...

I am creating a word processing document, and when I print it, it doesn't print correctly. 1. before you print a document use "print preview" 2. Go to the file menu 3. Choose Print Preview 4. The page you see is what will print 5. If you like what you see, click the printer icon or print on the top right OR click close to close the preview and then make any needed adjustments or changes Frustrated about extra useless pages being printed when printing from the internet? 1. Print Preview will eliminate the waste 2. Go to File--->Print 3. At the print dialog window click the Preview button on the bottom left 4. A preview of what is to print appears 5. Look on the right to see how many pages will print and what content is on each page 6. Decide which page # to print 7. Click Cancel to exit print preview 8. Click on the page you want to print in the background 9. go to file and print again 10. in the window that appears below pages type which page you want ex. 2 to: 2 11. ...

I want to Justify my text in Word XP 1. Type out your document/paragraph 2. Click once or highlight/select the paragraphs you want to justify 3. Go to the format menu above 4. Choose paragraph 5. Beside Alignment choose "justify" 6. Click OK If justify does not work, make sure that the sentences that may appear like a paragraph are continuous and are not separated by paragraph marks 1. Turn on/off invisible formatting by click the backwards P or paragraph mark on top 2. If you see the paragraph mark at the end of every line you thought was part of a paragraph, remove them to connect the sentences Use Footers and Headers to add dynamic information that changes as the document changes. Like the date, time, page number, number of pages. 1. Click the view menu 2. Choose Header and footer 3. click above for the header or below for the footer on the document and press tab if you need to jump to the middle or far right 4. click on the correspo...

I can't find a bookmark that I saved in Firefox 1. Open the list of bookmarks by clicking the bookmark menu--->choose organize bookmarks 2. All the bookmarks will be listed 3. On the top right is a search box that allows you to search based on the name of the bookmark Downloading and installing software by copying the files to your computer 1. download the software onto the desktop 2. open the folder or image (looks like a white disk) 3. Graphics or instructions should appear explaining what needs to be moved where with an arrow indicating moving 4. find the folder to where the file is to be moved to ( you can search for it by name by opening the macintosh hd and typing in the name on the top right white search box) 5. Once you see the folder double click to open it 6. then move the files into that folder Create a folder to store/organize emails on Macintosh Mail 1. click the mailbox menu 2. choose new mailbox 3. choose on my mac 4. type in the name of the new folder/mailbox 5....

My printer is not printing First, make sure there are no error messages or lights blinking on your printer which indicates that paper may be jammed, more ink may be needed, or another printer error. If that is fine, your printer queue may have been stopped. To fix the queue 1. Click the apple menu 2. click system preferences 3. print and fax 4. double click on the printer that is displayed to open more information 5. in the window that appears look at the bottom for a list of print jobs that are stuck and are waiting to be printed 5a. if you see duplicate names/jobs, click on the name and click delete above so you don't get multiple copies printed 6. Click above, start jobs 7. the printer will start printing all the jobs waiting in the queue I have os x version 10.3 and safari is not translating websites correctly. ***Download a different web browser, BUT make sure that the version you download is compatible with your operating system 10.3 Opera http://www.opera.com/browser/downlo...

Using Clipart in Microsoft Word 1.    Open word 2.    Go to insert 3.    Picture 4.    choose Clipart 5.    a window on the right side will appear 6.    in the search, type in what you are looking for (be sure the pull down menus are on All collection and All media file types) 7.    the pictures will appear 8.    click once on the picture to add it to the document   Changing the way the picture interacts with your document 1.    double-click on the picture 2.    click the layout tab 3.    click square to have the text wrap around the picture like in a newspaper 4.    click hold and drag on the picture to move it   To get a picture from google 1.    go to google 2.    search for what you want 3.    click images 4.    click the image you want 5.    right click on the ima...